What's new in the mountains this week?

May is the time when the weather settles down after the normally unsettled weather of the equinox. This wasn't the case this May and we...

Peter Little and I have climbed together at least twice a year for the last 25 years all over Britain and the Alps. It was therefore only ...

So it went from 24c to 30cm of snow in the garden over night and the most widespread high avalanche forecast I had ever seen. All this coi...

Charles Sherwood and his daughter Tabatha joined me for the ski tour which sets off from Les Diablerets and arrives in Kandersteg. The most...

Once again the ski touring options became limited by the huge amount of snow that seem to keep spewing out of the ski. Francis Bridgeman his...

Anik Mercure and her husband Francois Brissette traveled all the way from Canada to join me for an attempt on the Haute Route. The dates ha...

Bill Mills & Greg Knott joined me for what was to prove a packed and eventful week with a sprinkling of unpredictable encounters. We ki...

Yes the foehn is the word that is like a death sentence to a good skiing forecast. Its effects are well documented but needless to say it c...

It is 3 years since the final and last time I skied with the world famous flying Grannies in Klosters. I had been their Guide for 17 years ...

The start of the school holidays coincided with the start of the first real settled weather of the winter. The hoilday makers must have bee...

I was given the opportunity by Professor Murray Dalziel ,Dean of The Liverpool Management School, to deliver a presentation on managing risk...

Justin Emrich turned up with 3 of his pals, Mathew Pete Mark. It was about 6 years since Justin & I had last skied together and 15 yea...

Francis Bridgeman and Vincent Smears joined me for a week of ski touring. This would have been fine with little snow and clear weather . W...

Just finished a continuous 10 day stint of skiing in every type of snow and weather. At first the conditions had been very cold and this me...

The snow of the previous week set up Russ Bragg and I well. Nevertheless the weather in Chamonix was grey and miserable for our 1st day. W...

We have had a lot of good weather recently. Issue with this is that good weather doesn't produce snow and as time progressed it was nece...

We were told by our friends Jeff and Faerthen that the conditions in the Vallee Blanche were exceptional. I saw this as an oppurtunity to s...